China/Japan in the midst of the nuke crisis - Political Forum

emptypepsi · #1 (**permalink**) 10-14-2006, 07:29 PM

http://www.electroniceconomist.com/w...ory_id=7996855

I thought this was a pretty fine article from The Economist. I am particularly interested in hearing WEB, winter and anyone elses thoughts on this.

The article generally goes about saying that the NK situation is making Japan much more hawkish, yet making China/Japan deal with each other more now than ever. They imply the possibility of a 'cold-war' esque situation.

Comments or thoughts on how China/Japan relations will be affected with the NK situation?

Luke · #2 (**permalink**) 10-15-2006, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by emptypepsi

http://www.electroniceconomist.com/w...ory_id=7996855

I thought this was a pretty fine article from The Economist. I am particularly interested in hearing WEB, winter and anyone elses thoughts on this.

The article generally goes about saying that the NK situation is making Japan much more hawkish, yet making China/Japan deal with each other more now than ever. They imply the possibility of a 'cold-war' esque situation.

Comments or thoughts on how China/Japan relations will be affected with the NK situation?

Just one comment: The Japanese low interest loan is assumed to be a replacement to the huge amount of war compensation that China waived in order to promote China-Japan friendship in 1970s. CCP leaders waived that and explained to the people that the punishment to the war criminals should not be imposed on ordinary Japanese citizens. That is why most Chinese are particularly unhappy that the Japanese PM worships Yasukuni war shrine including the 14 class A war criminals.